These were grown from tube stock over the last couple of years , the trunk were wired as seedlings and left to grow on with minor trims . Yesterday I decided to hook in and give them their first major wiring

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, still struggling to keep natives alive but that's the challenge .

Cheers Alpineart

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Hi Treeman , totally agree, I have forced a couple down in the branches and they didn't like it , both eventually died possibly a little bit of neglect in there .

Hi Steven , the single trunk was trimmed in Winter the 2 tree's in summer , the single was extremely slow to recover . I thought it might turn it's toes up . Ihave a few more seed grown and tube stock starters I have been playing with will do a topic or two when time permits

Hi Steven , yes I certainly would ,from experience with the sister tree , winter root pruning results in die back and complete foliage loss so I will let these recover then trim to suit . The single tree done last winter has caught up to these as in the foliage department .

I will use the circumstances as a comparison gauge for growth and recovery ie Winter / Summer root work , not that this episode was planned .

Hi Rory , mate I have been playing with a few Natives over the last few years but it's more hit and miss until i learn the does and don't and there's no real rules here

You can read about it but putting it into practice is completely different . I have a couple of dozen tube stocks at various stages being tortured at the moment . Hopefully have quite a few species to add to the list .